91 comments:

If the Brewers lost you root for the National League champion. No love lost in rooting for the better team that beat yours. It's actually better anyway. If the team that beat yours wins it all at least you get to say we came up short against the Champs.

I say this on the utmost highest authority in the irrational passion of competitive sports. I'm a Bears fan that rooted for the Packers in the Super Bowl.

I've decided not to root for either team. As an Arizona resident and fan, I rooted for the Diamondbacks until they were defeated by the Brewers. (It was a great series.) I then switched loyalties to the Brewers (so I could claim that the Diamondbacks were the 2nd best team in baseball, should the Brewers win it all). Now? I've decided I'm a jinx, so I'll just hope for a good series.

You people understand that Bush stole 2000 election right? And is a War Criminal? A Liar and Murderer, who killed about 75,000,000 Iraqis! You just mentioned “George Bush” to tweak Ritmo and Garage, right Althouse?

The Brewers started as an AL team so throw away the NL rationale. The Cardinals are a deserving team but have won 10 World Series, the Rangers, not only have not won a World Series but have a long record of futility.

I really don't care much about the post-season crap shoot, but I grew up rooting for National League teams and will continue to do so now, but I won't be disappointed if Texas wins. At least it's not a northeast or west coast franchise.

"If the Brewers lost you root for the National League champion. No love lost in rooting for the better team that beat yours. It's actually better anyway. If the team that beat yours wins it all at least you get to say we came up short against the Champs."

I considered that, but then I thought about the happiness of George Bush.

St Louis are the most smug, self-satisfied fans in the National League. They will tell you how great a baseball town St Louis, whether you asked or not. Plus what's the deal with Missouri? It is in the South, the Midwest or what. I have no sense of what it's suppossed to be about.

I have to agree with Brennan and that our breed rescue org works with ARF the La Russa's animal rescue and spay/neuter org. Tony and Elaine are down to earth folks, no pretenses, as passionate about addressing the stray animal population and kill shelter issue as baseball.

Plus, I've never forgiven the "A's" for losing La Russa and switched league loyalty to follow the Cards. Although post season the Althouse vortex pulled me towards the Brewers. So it's all good.

I should say I'm not a Pepsi rep..Wash got busted for coke. Sorry Coke addicts.

Having lived in KC..it's more southern than STL. Ironically, like Gloria Swanson, STL thinks it's really a cosmoplitan Eastern City than Midwest, or God Forbid, the South. Many Card fans reflect that inflated self image. Not all..I know some good, knowledgeable Card fans. But even those tend to be quite chauvanistic

The Cards are the Brewer's biggest rival. I naturally want to root for Texas - call it schadenfreude or the enemy of my enemy is my friend or whatever.

But baseball is different than most sports in that the two leagues have different rules - the designated hitter. Since the DH is the worst rule in the history of sports, I find it almost impossible to root for an AL team (thank goodness the Brewers left the AL when they had the chance).

Come on Scott..your city is crumbling. KC is flourishing and you still consider KC folks hicks although they passed you a few decades ago. I'm not from Mo. so I can be pretty objective. StL has really been in decline since they stopped being the biggest city west of the Mississippi a couple generations ago. And, I'm not from Chicago but did also live there. STL is not even close to Chicago in culture, food, music, architecture..how long a list do you want?

Please list the "real" teams. Is there a point in history when real teams became locked in?

The Texas Rangers were never an expansion team. The moved to Texas from Washington D.C. in 1972 although the last version of the Senators were formed to replace the original Senators that moved to Minnesota. I'm confused. Are the Yankees a bogus expansion team since they moved from Baltimore?

STL is not even close to Chicago in culture, food, music, architecture..how long a list do you want?

You should go back and read the original statement I was referring to. I never made any statements alluding to anything you're talking about. St Louis does not consider itself an "eastern" cosmopolitan city. I also said St Louis was the anti-Chicago. Not better, almost polar opposite.

And I DID grow up in Chicago until 18 and have lived in St Louis since '94. I'm fully aware of the differences and shortcomings of each metro...of which there are legion for both. That being said, give me St Louis any day.

Woo hoo! Thanks for supporting the Rangers, Ann! We enjoyed having the Packers down here for the Super Bowl earlier this year, and we were happy when the TCU Horned Frogs met up with the Badgers in the Rose Bowl. We were hoping for a third Texas/Wisconsin contest with the Brewers in the World Series, but it wasn't to be. Go, Rangers!

Also, having recently given up my cable TV...it was painful that the ALCS was on TBS. Is baseball that unpopular that its "semifinals" are not even on one of the major networks?

Yeah, I thought the same thing until about third inning when I switched over to AMC for Walking Dead's season premier. Slightly more entertaining than baseball, although the action moves about as fast.

Trust me Ann, you will be happy with your choice - Ron Washington's Rangers are a great team to root for. These guys deserve it, and watching Wash do a little dance every now and then makes my heart sing.

As for the Cards, we're gonna drop a claw on 'em, 'cause that's how baseball go.

Ever see "Kentucky Fried Movie"? If you haven't I suggest you stop whoever you're doing and go rent or see if you can stream it. The crew that wrote and directed "Airplane" were responsible and it's hysterical. It's basically a series of sketches, news, and faux-commercials built around a central movie within a movie.

There's a hair tonic ad near the beginning with a couple of ball players in the locker room and it's completely serious until the very end. As they sit the product down and the announcer starts doing the quick spiel, the two ball players move back to the out-of-focus part of the shot and start making out.

The best part was the very last bit with the man and woman in front of the evening news...when the anchor realizes he can see what's going on in their living room. THAT is one of the funniest scenes I think I've ever seen and that was probably '84 or so when I saw it for the first time.

The ALCS was on Fox in 2011. We watched it. The NCLS was on TBS. At least that's how it was in my neck of the woods. And that neck is so scrawny I doubt if Fox and TBS did something special just for us.

You have to root for your league. If STL wins the Brewers can claim to be the second best team in baseball. If Texas wins, the Tigers, the Rays, and whoever finished second in the AL West can all claim to be the second best.

If your team is not in the series, you should sit back and enjoy the series without a favorite. There are compelling stories on both sides. You should be a true baseball fan. The exciting aspect of the series is the frequent use of players in a different manner than in the regular season, especially pitchers.

It is recommended to root for individuals to perform well, such as Albert Pujols, the greatest hitter of this generation.

All six divisional champs coasted into post season play. Tampa Bay got their wild card berth with a Heimlich maneuver. The Cards overcame a ten game deficit and played .750 ball for the month of September just to get into the playoffs. They are far and away the hottest team in baseball. Their utility player won MVP in the NL Championship Series with the Brewers. He apologized for winning the trophy and excused it by admitting that he grew up in St. Louis.

Curt Flood never made it to the Hall of Fame, but nobody ever had more impact on the game.

IAAXIN INFOTECH SYSTEMS (P) LTD is a professional fast growing organization with focus in the areas of software development, training, consulting and marketing. iaaxin infotech systems builds and delivers practical, timely, best value solutions to solve management, technology, and program challenges. We serve customers in the public and private sectors

Our web developer take on projects which range from simply visibility to complete transaction capture and back office processing. Whether you Are a small one man startup business or a large international corporate we liaise regularly with you to ensure a high quality product is delivered.

STL IS an East Coast city, because it's all about whether you were born there and that all-important question "where did you go to high school." It's their favorite question. Go look at the partners' offices in the big law firms there: they all hang their Country Day School diplomas up with their college, law school and Bar licenses. How nuts is that? It's a town that's about who you know and who your parents know.

That said, we're rooting for the Cards because my husband was born and raised in STL. And his Country Day diploma is stuck in a closet somewhere, thankyouverymuch.

John, I could murder some Ted Drewes! If we lived in STL I'd weigh 300 lbs just from eating concretes. My husband was from North County, but his mom had major Ladue aspirations - hence the school choice. I guess it didn't work: she lives here in Houston now, too. ;)

I've never thought of STL as eastern in the sense of sophisticated or cosmopolitan - it just likes things old, kinda like Boston. People just care too much about where you came from. Unlike Houston, which is much more a "what have you done for me in the last 10 minutes?" kind of place.

On the other hand, if St. Louis wins,Ken Misemer will be happy. His late father was a lifelong Cardinal fan who attended four World Series and went to bed listening to Redbird games on the transistor radio neatly fitted into his pajama pocket.